🍃 BALI 2016 🌴 pre-wedding photos 🍃
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🌿 I loved this dress so much I knew it would be part of my wedding trousseau along with a few others 🥰 this beautiful day was spent exploring iconic locations of Ubud, clambering barefoot over rocks & in waterfalls - hand in hand with the person who believes in me most & allows me to fulfill my creative dreams & my wanderlust 💗 #weddingphotography#baliwedding#destinationwedding#kimonodress

Just finished up a week of sailing around the Croatian coast with a great bunch of people!
I spent the majority of the time laying in the sun feeling sorry for myself after copious amounts of heavy partying, but, I did get out and venture around some islands to get some snaps 📸

If you’ve been on a trip in the past year, chances are we’ve hit you up with a travel question this month. 🙈 We’re DEEP into research mode for 2020, and we’re looking forward to exploring some places we’ve never considered before.
The more adventurous we become, the more seriously we take travel safety. After much discussion we’ve decided I should leave my beautiful engagement ring at home for some trips. 😢 I’ve never taken it off since Connor gave it to me on the way to Nantucket last year, but for safety’s sake, it’s probably best to stick to wedding bands, only.
Our married (or boujee 💁🏻‍♀️) friends, we’d love your input! Do you ditch the diamond rings when you travel abroad? 💍

🍃 what I love about travel is the hidden gems you stumble upon unexpectedly 🌏 when I was first researching Sri Lanka it’s because I wanted to escape Tokyo winter for the sun & the sea and it was too late to find a good deal for Hawaii. I found a great price for Sri Lanka but then started to get a bit too excited about visiting other parts of the country - my husband had to rein me in and remind me that I initially wanted a relaxing beach holiday instead of exhausting ourselves by traipsing all over the country 🌿 lol I reasoned back - well were we going to visit Sri Lanka a second time in the near future? If not we have to do some of the other beautiful areas but I compromised by ending our trip in relaxation.
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🍃Part of our trip was exploring the south of Sri Lanka, where we were lucky to do some whale watching viewing those magnificent creatures in their natural habitat 🐳 and walking along gorgeous golden sand where we stumbled upon this beautiful private island: Taprobane (which you can stay at! but we didn’t). I love that to get to it you have to wade out in low tide to reach the island and its entrance steps ☀️ #srilanka#visitsrilanka#travelsrilanka#islandparadise

The view really is gorge-ous from up here...
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My partner and I have just adventures on a 10 day road trip from Perth to Darwin (over 5000km!) to explore the unique national parks and marine reserves of @ausoutbacknt and @westernaustralia and I can’t wait to share all our adventures with you.
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Our first stop on our road trip was Nitmiluk National Park where we swim in the crystal clear waters of Edith Falls and hiked through Katherine Gorge (pictured). Just a 3 hour drive south of Darwin, Nitmiluk National Park covers a vast area, including 13 impressive gorges carved from the ancient sandstone country which stretch for as far as the eye can see.

So begins the process of sorting through my Mongolia photos 🥴 a lot of people asked me what kind of special tour I was doing, but honestly unless you're bound to the capital city, all tours will be the same as mine - Mongolia is a nomadic country, so in order to experience the culture and see the sights you gonna join in on that nomadic fun!

Traveling to Disneyland for husband’s partner conference means several things. Halloween decorations, pumpkins galore, lots of fun park time with the family, fun parties at night, and getting my first PSL of the season. Tokyo Starbucks, I enjoy the sweet potato and apple drinks but it’s not quite the same. #psl please?

We do not get to choose how we start out in life. We do not get to choose the day we are born or the family we are born into, what we are named at birth, what country we are born in, and we do not get to choose our ancestry. All these things are predetermined by a higher power. By the time you are old enough to start making decisions for yourself, a lot of things in your life are already in place. It’s important, therefore, that you focus on the future, the only thing that you can change.

Have you ever visited Jordan 🇯🇴? Jordan is an Arab Nation on the East bank of the Jordan River and it’s famous for its ancient monuments, nature reserves and seaside resorts.
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#funfact Jordan is home to the famed archaeological site of Petra, the Nabatean capital dating back to around 300B.C 😲👀
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📸 by @jordhammond

Today is not a good day.
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At risk of sounding dramatic and/or ungrateful, I am truly sick of what my life has become. For all my waking hours, my mind is flooded with thoughts of feeling worthless and being a burden to everyone I know, and these have been joined by some really bad intrusive thoughts in the last week.
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After I quit my job two weeks ago, I had a few days of excitement and motivation to fill the next chapter of my life with all sorts of things that I though would make me happy. Now I’m already having to scale those plans back and be more realistic.
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I had three trips half planned in my mind that I wanted to do this autumn, and now I’m not sure if I’m going to manage any of them. Being away from home is now stressful for me because I’m scared of reaching crisis point while I’m halfway around the world on my own, and stressful for my dad because he’s the first person I go to when I feel like I’m a danger to myself. It’s one thing being a couple of hours from home, but things aren’t as easy to fix with a 12-hour flight in between us.
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Some days are better than others, but I’m still not doing great. I am still mourning the loss of something I feel was taken without warning or much consideration, which has felt like a three-month-long punch to the stomach. The energy that initially ended up as tears and anxiety attacks has been reassigned to less disruptive but more harmful behaviours, which are now starting to catch up with me. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
I’m trying to find hope and happiness in some of the little things in life which don’t cause me feelings of guilt or anxiety. But honestly, I really just want to give up. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
📍Blausee🇨🇭
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📆 June 2018
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